Young people are f***ing morons

Forty-four per cent of Millennials would to prefer to live in a socialist country, 7 per cent in a communist country and 7 per cent in a fascist one. Only 42 per cent opt for capitalism.

This goes way beyond just being moronic. This is mind-blowing, words-fail-me moronic. Our young people are morons. Not all of them, true – and I apologise to all those who aren’t, including all of my young friends – but not an insignificant minority either: a majority, in fact; nearly 60 per cent!

These are the results of a second annual study commissioned by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and conducted by YouGov. The survey also shows that while young people totes heart socialism, most of them have trouble actually defining ideologies like socialism, communism, fascism and capitalism. So while for some, socialism is a conscious preference, for others it’s clearly “anything but what we have at the moment”.

When you read through the whole report you realise that the American population generally doesn’t come out shining with knowledge and insight (68 per cent, for example, think that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, despite the fact that the top 20 per cent of earners already pay 95 per cent of all income tax collected), but there is no doubt that amongst all the generations, the Millennials take the cake – and eat it (a rare experience in the socialist Venezuela these days).

So yes, young people are f***ing morons. But they are f***ing morons because their parents, their teachers, and the media and creators of their popular culture are f***ing morons too. F***ing morons aren’t born; they’re created. And it takes a village to raise a f***ing moron.

Parents – who are either lefties themselves or likewise ignorant and/or don’t care, who, when their child comes back home spouting nonsense, don’t sit them down and ask: do you know what socialism actually is? do you know how it always ends up in practice?

Teachers – mostly leftie at schools and overwhelmingly leftie at universities, who either directly indoctrinate children and young people with failed ideas and ideologies, or feed them a steady diet of pious, politically correct bullshit which skews their outlook and prevents them from absorbing the actual useful information about life and the world out there.

The media and the popular culture – who not so much promote socialism per se as constantly run their own country and society down, portraying it as deeply dangerous, unfair, inequitable and oppressive. No wonder young people, already under-educated and lacking the crucial skills of contextualising and putting things in perspective, think they are living in some sort of a dystopia.

These are all American statistics, but I would be surprised if the situation was radically different in countries like Australia or Great Britain. Down Under, after all, two thirds of young people vote either for the Labor Party or the Greens. And the state of the historical knowledge is likewise woeful.

We need to do better, all of us, to try to reverse this intellectual damage that has been done and is being done to the next generations, some, like the Millennials, who already vote (when they can be bothered). Better education. More overseas travel, which tends to open people’s eyes. But above all, talk to people.

The ultra-radical, active core associated with antifa is a tiny minority. These are the people who actually know what communism is – and they like it. The silent dumb majority is less engaged, less informed, and their politics more a matter of an instinct rather than well-thought out philosophy. These are the people we can try to rescue from ignorance, one by one. Before the sheer mass of moronity sends us all down, with this ship of fools.